At Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:51:57 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> wrote:
> > Answering here to all three replies, and thanks for all of them! I think > it should have been clear from my wording that I want to install from > scratch and wipe the existing OS. I do not want to dualboot or "save" > anything (or much) from the existing OS. I just want to reuse the existing > LVM structure with all the existing guests and wasn't sure if this would > be easily provided by the install wizard or if I needed to do something > special. Or if I should just install via kickstart reusing the original > kickstart file with slightly altered options (e.g. don't create volumes, > just format the correct ones - which might be a tricky and easily mistaken > one). So, as I understand, a normal install with the custom disk layout > option should be able to reuse the LVM as I want it, right? Thanks. Yes. Just be sure to reformat things like the / and /boot file systems (/usr and /var if those are separate). You can leave /home and and *data* file system alone. > > Kai > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / hel...@deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
